Understanding Chinese Society
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication:
7/2015
Languages:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN/SKU:
9781138917408
Pages:
250
Sizes:
234 x 156mm
Weight:
0.4000
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This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertaken not only of China’s family patterns, education system, status, hierarchy, and ethnic diversity, but also of China’s mass media, legal system and social control, work, and cultural expression. As well as being thoroughly updated and revised throughout, this edition offers new chapters on urbanization, the environment, and civil society in China.
1. Introduction 2. Sources of Chinese identity Marjorie Dryburgh 3. Rituals and the life cycle Lucy Zhao 4. Family and marriage Xiaowei Zang 5.Gender and sexuality Jieyu Liu 6. Contested ground: Community and neighbourhood Chunrong Liu 7. Education Gerard Postiglione 8. Status and Hierarchy Qian Forrest Zhang 9. Ethnic minorities Colin Mackerras 10.Transformation of work in post-Mao China Yi-min Lin 11. Urbanization and its impacts on China Yu Hong 12. The mass media Xiaoling Zhang 13. Environmental protection Vic Li 14. Civil society in a birdcage? Kamyee Law 15. Government and changing state-society relations Xiaowei Zang